Opinion: UK's Cameron Pulling a Thatcher on EU?

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... I ... head over to all my now or a quarter century debate has got a new life ... here's Margaret Thatcher in nineteen eighty ... we are going to have to go back to front here to stay in Britain ... seen them in coaster year for him that ... younger consumers to exercise and I knew in common and sometimes ... welcome back opinion Journal why Mary Kissel that was Margaret Thatcher ... on the debate over the European Union and Britain's involvement in it ... now Prime Minister David Cameron says ... he still wants to have a referendum ... Wall Street Journal Europe editorial page editor Brian Carney is joining me now from London ... Brian what a crowd that was from Maggie Thatcher ... of was that the EU will always destined to become a super state what that Britain ever see ... in joining ... well you know ... the EU has has had two main strands right there's a free trading mood ... Liberty strand true then there is so super states around them ... Britain has no is kind of ... in onshore which one is gonna survive as a lot of people are which one is going to trial and therefore whether they wanna be part of that or they wanna try to re form and are ... you know that they wanna get out and this is what David Cameron's wrestling when he's got ... a lot of people in his own party and a lot of people who might leave his party to join the party of the UK Independence Party because they see Europe ... killing the super state direction they see the fear is that ... Martin Thatcher Express tonight that ... being realize he gave a speech this morning in which he said you know ... we can we can fight this thing again we can ... reinvent your up along the lines of were happier with a free trade in year out that ... a Europe that is outward looking that is not protectionist ... towards the external world and that is in a dynamic and growing and competitive than ... I've laughed that ... either he gets in the hat that all sounds like good advice on I just wanted dive a little deeper into why he's having this referendum now ... this is an effort to distract from ... yet domestic issues that ... he doesn't really wanna travel if they talk about or do you think that this is actually a genuine ... attempt to address these political divisions in just outlined ... and though I think that ... it's it's ... the former in a sense right like he's facing issues facing this this UK Independence Party surging in the polls ... he's facing his own party down in the polls against the Labour Party ... and ... a lot of people in his own party on happy with the way that Europe is going in the course of the euro crisis and so he's saying ... this is both awaited the fact you get a bit and it's a way to put this off disease talk about a referendum the stock to another referendum and about twenty seventeen half for the next election after he's hoping ... to ... to to ... quell the euro this an issue between now and the next election citizen of the fight ... with his own party about his position on Europe until after they get past an election than if he wins the election ... then he started having a referendum well the referendum may never happen ... while leaving the politicians today no one offer out there that they know actually maybe won't have to deal with it ... Wall Street Journal Sprint said that they are very good at it ... Wall Street Journal Europe editorial page